[PLUG] Need Virtualization Advice

chris (fool) mccraw gently at gmail.com
Wed Nov 23 06:59:34 UTC 2011


On Tue, Nov 22, 2011 at 18:03, Russell Johnson <russ at dimstar.net> wrote:

>> 2. Vmware or Virtualbox?
>
> I like vmware because, like my Mac, it just works. I use vmware fusion on my mac to run Windows, and when I was running a linux box as my main machine, I ran Windows in a vmware session. It's usually quite a while between times I need to run Windows, and when I do, vmware pops right back up.
>
> It virtualizes all the hardware. You can choose to attach the USB/CD/etc hardware to the virtual computer, or not.

i would make all the same statements about virtualbox, except hey,
free & open source.

i've never used vmware, though, so i don't know which is better.  but
i'd say both work.  i do know a fair amount about the vmware suite's
featureset, and based on that i'd say vmware is incredibly well suited
to enterprise-level complex stuff.  but i've used virtualbox for
migration over the network and it has worked, so it's not exactly
hobbyist-level-only either.



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